These past few days, I’ve been watching the complete season of Private Practice and Brothers and Sisters. They’re really good, by the way. I highly recommend it to people who loved Gray’s Anatomy (because Private Practice is actually a spin-off from Gray’s) and Brothers is like an older less moral version of 7th Heaven or an older tamer OC. Anyway, I disgress. After watching these shows, I have come to one realization — the dating etiquette of TV boys and girls are totally far from reality. And no, you can’t argue that it’s simply because the American culture is different from the Filipino’s. Culture does not have anything to do with it. Let me start by citing a few examples.
Guys on TV PURSUE the women. Seriously, this doesn’t happen in real life. In reality, if a girl tells a guy, “No, you’re my boss, it will be too complicated to date you,” the guy walks away and runs off to date some other willing girl. In real life, guys have a mentality that if the girl tells you that let’s just be friends, he’ll think right away that there’s just no chance in hell she’ll change her mind. Thus, no pursuing or wooing happens. You don’t even get the Let’s-just-get-coffee-it’s-just-coffee-nothing-else routine or the flowers in your office “in case you change your mind.” In reality, girls are not given the chance to change their minds. In reality, guys are just a lot weaker, less confident and more afraid of rejection.
On the other hand, there are those who do know how to pursue. But in real life, these are not the hot confident committed guys that we see on TV. In real life, these are the over-confident guys who are just simply bored of their own lives that they love to inculcate themselves into the lives of girls who don’t want to touch them even with a ten-foot pole: the married ones, the really older guys, the playboys. Such a far cry from the ones we see on TV.
Second, after a girl cheats on a guy, she does not call him back and tell him “I just miss you.” Heller! That would be stupid. If I cheated on a guy, I would be too embarassed to even show my face to him, let alone call him and tell him I miss him. Seriously.
Third, in real life, open mouth French kissing does not happen when two co-workers who supposedly hate each other began staring into each other’s eye. Seriously, this is so not true. It’s kinda envious - okay, I’m only human - but if I were stuck in a room with some guy I truly detested, no matter how incredibly hot he was, I’d still slap him if he began kissing me or rubbing his body on mine.
Fourth, no girl in her right mind would go to a guy’s workplace and ask him out. I mean, there was this episode where Dr. Addison went to the office of this really cute cop and I knew that this cannot happen in real life. I think of this particular episode because I have a female classmate who’s incredibly crushing on this engineer guy from Sangali and I’ve been joking with her about visiting the guy in his office, with the excuse of “Just passed by because we were visiting a friend’s house”. In Sangali. Hahaha… Like the guy will probably believe us. In reality though, if she probably did that, the guy would be running for the hills the minute she sees her walking into his office.
Fifth, young hot male midwifes don’t go around kissing older female doctors. That just does not happen in real life! We’d love that if it would happen though - Wahahaha! It is actually quite romantic! - but males and females are a lot more rooted on the ground to do something as incredibly shocking as kissing your female superior. If the guy was my boyfriend though, I would have no qualms about doing something like that but if we weren’t, and some random guy who’se been crushing on me kisses me in the middle of the ER, once again, I’d slap him silly. Even if he looked like that guy from High School Musical.
Some people may think that it’s just my jaded views that’s brainwashed my romantic views and opinions. No. On the contrary, I am trying to be as objective as I can. We love watching these shows because our life does not resemble a single iota of the real-life drama that these shows portray. That is the X-factor that these shows have on us.
We love these shows because for an hour or so, they make us believe that all female doctors are hot (even when our value actually gets depreciated the older we get or the more titles we have at the end of our names. Damn my PTRP, MD, MPH!), that we get a lot of action, even with guys we hate (even when the truth is, we really lead very boring lives. The highest point of my dating career was internship and it was downhill from then on. Hahaha…), that it’s still possible for us to meet our own Senator McAllister (like we’d actually end up dating some really high profile guy. Heller! Kudos to those who will be MHOs in the future, it’s still possible for you girls to date your Mayors or Congressmans! Or if worse comes to worse, kagawads or tanods. Wahahaha…), that it’s okay for girls to ask guys out (I’m still debating on that one. I have this urge to ask this guy out that some friends paticularly liked for me but I think he’s incredibly intimidated with me. Darn that PTRP, MD, MPH again! Sigh…), that guys are more confident and not easily discouraged nowadays (I hate guys who tell me “Who am I to date you?” It’s incredibly taxing to be with guys whom I need to keep on stroking egos, to the point that I would have to lie. It’s time that I should be with someone who will stroke MY own ego as well! I have low self-esteem issues too!) and that there are still those who believe that perseverance gets the girl (Yes, guys. In reality, some girls don’t really mean it when they say, “let’s just be friends.” Di ba Jack? Hehehe, joke3x!).
We love these shows because they are not real. Because real life is simply banal and boring. Real life is just a whole lot more disappointing.
Sigh… Or maybe I’m just watching too much TV already. Hehehe…
Next stop, Gossip Girl.
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